... police in the city are staging 13 DUI/drivers license checkpoints and two "saturation patrols" from tonight through Labor Day weekend. Most of them are not in what you'd consider the whiter, more well-heeled areas of town, interestingly.

One of those saturation patrols -- Saturday from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. -- is in the LAPD's "West Los Angeles Area," but there are no specifics about exactly where it will be. And one of the 13 checkpoints, Saturday from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Venice and Lincoln boulevards, is another exception to our observation.

But even some communities in the Westside, like parts of Venice and nearby Mar Vista, are immigrant-heavy.

Facing criticism over the impounding and selling of unlicensed immigrants cars (illegals can't get drivers licenses in California), LAPD Chief Charlie Beck in March announced that nearby friends or relatives could drive the cars home when someone was caught driving without a license.

The department says the weekend's crackdown is part of the national "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" program as well as the California Avoid DUI Task Force Campaign. Cops say you'll see a lot more of this between now and Labor Day.

Here's the LAPD's full roster for DUI checkpoints and patrols through Labor Day weekend. Don't say we didn't warn you:

Dennis Romero has worked on staff at several magazines and newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los Angeles Times, where he participated in Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the L.A. riots. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone online, the Guardian, and, as a
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